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[-] KenOh@feddit.online 22 points 2 days ago

Un-fucking-believable breaks this.

[-] 0ops@piefed.zip 24 points 2 days ago
[-] MoffKalast@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Ngl that still works

[-] spinne@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

"Un-fucking-believable" is standard usage, but "unbe-fucking-lievable" still works as an alternate. That's when you're down to artistic judgment and choosing which form fits your case best. Mixing it up and using something unexpected is a good way to provide emphasis.

[-] ytg@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

There’s a morpheme boundary here, probably has something to do with it. The examples in the post have no morpheme boundary before the main stress, or at least not one that’s transparent to English speakers (ab/solu/te/ly might hypothetically have been more transparent to a Latin speaker though)

[-] tabarnaski@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'd hypothesise that you can insert fucking either between the prefix and the root, or before a stressed vowel.

EDIT: Expletive infixation - Wikipedia https://share.google/broCNIxOgtnKUPvSv

this post was submitted on 07 Mar 2026
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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

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